Date:21/04/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/04/21/stories/2008042155801700.htm

Business

Moving to market

— PHOTO: K. K. Mustafah

CHOOSING VARIETY: Workers packing the harvested rice grains on road side in Lower Kuttanadu. Agriculture, especially crop production is the mainstay of the Indian economy, which supports about 115.5 million farm families. A variety of crops is grown under diverse climatic situation in different cropping systems.